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IBM

IBM

Industry
Unclassified
Exchange
NYSE
Leaders covered
5
Market data
1990–2025

Chief executive

Arvind Krishna

Apr 2020 – present

2026 reading

Even

1 signal, 1 drag

Strong 0 of 1 · Firm 3 of 3 · Even 2 of 2 rose

Arvind Krishna at IBM, by year
YearReadingStackedIBMResult
2025Even1 signal, 1 drag+38.2%Rose
2024Firm1 signal, 0 drags+39.3%Rose
2023Firm1 signal, 0 drags+21.9%Rose
2022Firm1 signal, 0 drags+10.6%Rose
2021Even0 signals, 0 drags+16.7%Rose
2020Strong2 signals, 0 drags−1.2%Fell

Former chief executive

Ginni Rometty

Jan 2012 – Apr 2020

9 years on record

Firm 2 of 4 · Even 1 of 4 · Weak 0 of 1 rose

Ginni Rometty at IBM, by year
YearReadingStackedIBMResult
2020Even0 signals, 0 drags−1.2%Fell
2019Even0 signals, 0 drags+23.6%Rose
2018Weak0 signals, 1 drag−22.6%Fell
2017Firm1 signal, 0 drags−4.0%Fell
2016Firm1 signal, 0 drags+25.2%Rose
2015Even0 signals, 0 drags−11.4%Fell
2014Even0 signals, 0 drags−12.4%Fell
2013Firm1 signal, 0 drags−0.2%Fell
2012Firm1 signal, 0 drags+5.9%Rose

Former chief executive

Sam Palmisano

Mar 2002 – Jan 2012

11 years on record

Firm 1 of 2 · Even 5 of 7 · Soft 1 of 1 · Weak 1 of 1 rose

Sam Palmisano at IBM, by year
YearReadingStackedIBMResult
2012Soft0 signals, 1 drag+5.9%Rose
2011Even0 signals, 0 drags+27.4%Rose
2010Weak0 signals, 1 drag+14.3%Rose
2009Firm2 signals, 1 drag+58.6%Rose
2008Even0 signals, 0 drags−20.8%Fell
2007Even0 signals, 0 drags+12.8%Rose
2006Even1 signal, 1 drag+19.8%Rose
2005Even1 signal, 1 drag−15.8%Fell
2004Even1 signal, 1 drag+7.2%Rose
2003Even0 signals, 0 drags+20.5%Rose
2002Firm1 signal, 0 drags−35.5%Fell

Former chief executive

Lou Gerstner

Apr 1993 – Mar 2002

8 years on record

Strong 2 of 2 · Firm 1 of 1 · Even 3 of 4 · Weak 0 of 1 rose

Lou Gerstner at IBM, by year
YearReadingStackedIBMResult
2002Weak0 signals, 1 drag−35.5%Fell
2001Firm1 signal, 0 drags+43.0%Rose
2000Even0 signals, 0 drags−20.8%Fell
1999Even0 signals, 0 drags+17.6%Rose
1998Strong2 signals, 0 drags+77.5%Rose
1997Strong2 signals, 0 drags+39.3%Rose
1996Even1 signal, 1 drag+67.7%Rose
1995Even0 signals, 0 drags+25.6%Rose

Former chief executive

John Akers

Jan 1985 – Mar 1993

No reading on record

John is on the site but not among the leaders the readings were computed over.

Readings
One of five levels a year, with how many signals and drags stacked, computed from the birth date over the thirteen possible birth hours and issued only where at least ten agree. Built 2026-10-16 from research export f0c9e40. The rules stay in-house.
Stock data
Calendar-year and monthly % change of adjusted close. Volatility % = annualised stdev of the 12 monthly returns. No prices are included. Adjusted close is split-adjusted, so a stock split never appears as a move in anything plotted here, and stock splits are not recorded as events.
Birth dates
206 of the 319 people in this dataset now have at least one source recorded here, across 207 of the 325 leader-company records — six people ran two companies and are stored once for each. Of those sources — all 207 of them — 204 are a stated age read out of an SEC proxy statement, which bounds a birth year and says nothing about the day; one is an age stated in a press report; two state the day itself, one from an official gazette read by a person and one from an encyclopedia. The day is what every reading on this site is calculated from, so for all but those two birth dates no source here backs the part that is used. The 204 records the pass produced were not reviewed by a person: each source names who read it. Six findings from the same pass are deliberately not entered, because in each one the date held here falls outside the bound the filing implies, and telling an ordinary record-date lag from a real disagreement needs a person rather than arithmetic. An absent entry still means no source is recorded here yet.
Research export
Version 2, generated 2026-10-16 from research commit 7d490ef with uncommitted changes

Research and exploration only. Not investment advice. A reading describes a leader's year from their birth date, not the stock.